“I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospita...” — Abraham Verghese Quote

I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and orthopedic consult.

Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.

I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.

I had two cats growing up that were indoor/outdoor and both of them died from being hit by a car. One of them, she didn't have an ID tag on, so someone just thought it was a stray cat I highly recommend to keep your cats indoors. Their lives end up a lot longer.

I don't know how convincing I'd be as a soul cat. I'm a scrawny British kid.

One night I was watching myself on a TV show, and I picked up my favorite cat and held her to the screen so she could see me. The next day she took off and I haven't seen her since.

I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.